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Monkey Business ***** (1952, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 2157

The brilliant 1952 screwball comedy Monkey Business stars Cary Grant as an absent-minded Professor developing an elixir of youth. Marilyn Monroe emerges gracefully from funny jokes at her expense – ’anyone can type’, ‘half child […]

Feb, 04

Calendar Girl **½ (1993, Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, Jerry O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 1960

Director John Whitesell’s Fifties-set 1993 youth-oriented coming-of-age comedy stars Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds and Jerry O’Connell as late teens who go to Hollywood to fulfil the dream of meeting Marilyn Monroe. One summer holiday, cocky Roy Darpinian […]

Dec, 14

Creature from the Black Lagoon **** (1954, Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Whit Bissell) – Classic Movie Review 1930

Universal Studios’ 1954 film Creature from the Black Lagoon is an endearing monster movie, featuring the rubber-costumed Gill Man (Ricou Browning in the water and Ben Chapman on dry land), a prehistoric beast fascinated by […]

Dec, 07

The Misfits ***** (1961, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 1365

Director John Huston’s and playwright/screenwriter Arthur Miller’s 1961 modern-day Western is brilliantly strange and striking. It focuses on the lives of a quartet of loveable losers (‘the misfits’), who embark on a chase for symbolic horses against […]

Jun, 27

The Asphalt Jungle ***** (1950, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Brad Dexter, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 1351

Co-writer/ director John Huston’s compulsively watchable, realistically staged classic 1950 film noir heist movie The Asphalt Jungle is a trail-blazing thriller with the criminal scam it focuses on invigoratingly portrayed as an inside tale from […]

Jun, 22

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ***** (1953, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Norma Varden, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, Elliott Reid) – Classic Movie Review 915

Howard Hawks’s glorious 1953 Technicolor musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is perfectly tailored to the very special talents of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, seen at their enchanting best as singer gold-diggers Dorothy and Lorelei. […]

Mar, 15

Niagara **** (1953, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters) – Classic Movie Review 723

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1953 movie Niagara is a brilliantly sexy, steamy and entertaining noirish crime thriller. After years in bit parts, the sexy young Marilyn Monroe rockets at last to stardom as Rose Loomis, the […]

Jan, 19

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